The goal of these events is to write and share fun little applications using Shoes, a clever little cross-platform GUI toolkit written in Ruby. This will allow us to test, document, and file bugs on how the various Shoes features work on the different supported platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac), in preparation for our next major release on July 31st, 2008.

No Ruby — or programming — experience is required; we’d love to find out how easy it is for novices to learn Shoes! Of course, if you happen to know the Ruby C API, expert help is always appreciated.

The primary interaction will take place on the Shoes IRC channel: #shoes on irc://irc.freenode.net
You can participate using any of the many web– and native– apps for IRC.

Shoes comes with its own built-in manual. Use `shoes -m` to bring it up. (On OS X, you can do ⌘-?.)

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